ABSTRACT
Political economy was no longer a new science in early nineteenth-century France, but it remained ‘political’ in character through its association with the political turmoil that characterised French social and political life throughout the century. Nevertheless, in time a number of books did appear that sought to disseminate political economy. These either presented the key conceptual apparatus of the science to social and political elites, notably those young people entering a career in law; or outlined some basic principles regarding the functioning of industrial society for a younger generation of schoolboys newly exposed to public instruction.
